Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
From: Christian Axelsson
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 02:54:04 EST
Hans Reiser wrote:
They are building in support for transactions into the OS.
Everything will be in XML. (It is not so important what format it is
in, as it is that they are going to do it in one format.)
Support for browsing versions in the FS.
Support for browsing and querying XML their unified format. Ok, so SQL
sucks, but this is still better than what we offer today in Linux.
I think this is better implemented in userspace somehow to keep the
kernel away from bloat.
What do you think of the GNOME Storage project:
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/
Its not exactly the same but maybe its going in that direction.
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Christan Axelsson
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